Friday 7 October 2011

The Road More Travelled


As a poor student I can remember pressing my cold nose against the windows of shops such as W S Foster and Floris in Jermyn Street and now I understand that they have some of my books for sale. And that's not all: Floris tell me that Brummell's ghost pops in from time to time and he was seen actually reading one of them at the counter. Apparently, he was smiling as he was reading but the devil of it is that I shall never know whether he was smiling in approbation or derision; still Brummell's ghost was reading my book in Floris: that's a long way down the road from just having a cold nose pressed, Little Match Girl-like, against a plate glass window of another of the world's most beautiful shops.

Speaking of things olfactory: gentle readers might keep their eyes open for a feature in The Field magazine entitled How Not To Smell Like a Dank Dog by someone from around here. I think that it's in the next edition. Thanks to John Bodenham of Floris, it even includes some nice pictures from their archive.

11 comments:

  1. What a weirdo!
    Nonna d'Italia.

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  2. You might say that, Nonna: I couldn't possibly comment....
    NJS

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  3. Great story, congratulations on your success! It's a strange feeling to see one's own work on display, at least that's my experience. I always expect someone to shout that the emperor is naked ;)

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  4. La Sombra Sofisticada - Thanks, and you sum it up nicely.
    NJS

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  5. Wonderful. I shall buy the next edition.

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  6. LBF - You seem to have solved the posting problem. What was the secret - as I am still having to moderate and publish my own comments as 'anon'!

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  7. NJS - I've seen that problem before. What browser and version are you using?

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  8. La Sombra Sofisticada - I use Google but I'm not sure of the version. The result says that the cookie is invalid for form restoration.
    NJS

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  9. I didn't do anything. I see that I can post on LSS's blog as well. I think Blogger had a glitch. Persistence pays.

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  10. I'm quite sure that downloading a new browser would solve the problem. I've seen that error and got the same message when I used a friend's computer. My suggestion of trouble shooting would be to download antother browser (say Mozilla Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/). Because even if you prefer Google's browser a complete new one from another company would give you the best ground for comparison when trouble shooting. Good luck!

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  11. Thank you LSS and LBF - I'll try another browser.
    NJS

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